Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-26
NEW YORK In WINTER.
DISTINGUISHED PERSONS WHO ADD
LIFE TO SOCIETY.
Met at a Observation-Disclosures Enter
tainments-Parior lectures on Various
Topics, From the soiss-.S System to
Mind Reading and ReI%ncarnation.
Especial Correspondence,

Especial Correspondence.
NEW YORK, Jar. l7.-In no city in the
country does one meet 80 many pleasant
people in a social way as In New York. l
suppose it Is because there are more people OF
all kinds here than elsewhere. AT a musicale
the other evening l met moro persons whom
you read about in the papers than l oould tell
you about in half a page.
To begin; ladies first: There is brilliant,
dark eyed Georgia Cayvan, who has made
you all nearly cry in her acting of May
Blossom. There, too, Is Ella Dietz Clymsr,
with the face of a Saint Cecilia. She Is q
saint, her friends say, If ever one strayed
down to earth to live. Mrs. Clymer trains
pupils for the stage now, / am told. Gentle
Jenny June sits beside Mrs. Clymer. Mrs.
Croly Jenny june has done more hard news
paper work than almost any other writer liv-
ing, man or woman, though her face bears
little trace of it. Over there sits Kate San
born, with her large, brainy looking head.
bright, fresh face and golden hair. I have
said somewhere that women, as a sex. are
lacking in the sense of humor. Please make
an exception in the case of Kate Sanborn.
She sparkles with mirth and humor, and Is
witty enough to be a great great-great-grand-
daughter of Sidney Smith himself.
Miss Sanborn is living here tbs winter.
and is a charming addition to those literary
and artistic circles which constitute exactly
the most delightful society OF New York.
There. too, a little nearer the musicians. is
an alert little lady, with very bright, quickly
CHANGING eyes, and a ready repartee. That,
If you please, is Aunt Fanny" Barrow.
known to all readers.
There are SO many distinguished women to
h9 mentioned that fhoSy a lpno,t nse,rl --s a.
men. Yet there are men here worth know
Ing. lie with the slightly sarcastic face, and
inustache and imperial like Louis Napoleon.
Is Constant Mayer, the artist. He wears In
his button hole a tiny red knot, tho ribbon OF
the French Legion of Honor.
Two other men come a little late, Do Won
r"r'eiaber in that delightful opera, siPa-
dence," Grosvenor, the fieshy aesthetic. who
had a mortgage on beauty, whom all the girls
went mad over, and who said
Curses on me fatal attractionsin Well. this
1nimitable Grosvenor comes to the musicale
tonight in ordinary dress and, il
must be confessed. looking a little
bored. tie fivesI In New York, and his name
Is Eugene Clarke. He comes late, for he has
been to a rehearsal. Another comes late. too.
a tall, striking looking man, with beautiful
white hair, whom New Workers and many
others recognize the instant they clap eyes on
him. He is Harry Edwards, OF Wallack,s
theatre; he, in velvet coat and silk stockings.
has just been playing Sir Oliver Surface in
the .sSchool for Scandal
These are a few OF the persons who sit m.
night and listen, now to the great thunderinp
contralto of Mime. Trebelli and now to violin
notes so exquisite, so fine and farsaway sweet
that they sound like spirit music floating in
the air.
The parlor lecture, too, is another form Of
entertainment very popular in New YORK.
city this winter. Tbefashion came from Bos.
ton. Mrs. Henrietta Crane Russell and her
husband are among the advocates and leaders
here 1T the Delsarte system Of elocution. or
acting, or expression, or whatever you might
call 10. don't know, I'm sure. The idea ia
that q certain movement of a muscle. a Ger.
tain turn Of the hand or head or arm, means
a given thought or emotion. If You learn
those movements you can express exactly
the given thought or emotion. 1t is wonder.
full, too, bow much there is in the system.
only, alas! Americans know very little
about it. The Cranes are now in England.
4 wave of psychics and occultism is pass
Ing over New York also. There are nightly
parlor% lectures on reincsrnation mind reading,
c~larsoyance, trance and mysticism of various
sorts. which are listened to with absorbing
interest JAMES ELMER.